Ramones Quotes
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I was the one who was always scowling, downcast. I tried to make sure I looked like that when I was getting my picture taken.
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Ricky Nelson... I couldn't believe it when he died. He was a great rock star.
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When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to the total dismay of my fellow Ramones.
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I used to be a hairdresser.
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No one in the group was really growing up besides me, which is pretty weird 'cause there was no one in that group more self-destructive than I was.
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I've always liked extreme performers; I don't think I am one, but my mentality is in line with that.
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It's very expensive to bring a band to New York.
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I didn't have the confidence to leave the band because of a solo career, or anything like that. I just wanted to grow.
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All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.
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I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know.
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Rock n' roll is very special to me. It's my lifeblood.
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The first record I bought may have been Del Shannon's 'Runaway.'
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We always stayed true to what the Ramones are.
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I'm only going to be the way I'd want someone to react to me.
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I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.
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The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth.
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Republicans let this happen over and over, and there is never anyone to stick up for them. They spend too much time defending themselves.
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Progression is important. I'm always going to play music in the general vein of rock'n'roll, but when I started I was very much associated with the West Coast lo-fi thing and I didn't want to get anchored in with anything that was just in vogue for the time being.
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Rock 'n' roll is meant to entertain. Hippie folk singers are supposed to be singing about leftist views, but I don't think rock 'n' roll was ever that way. I don't remember the early rock 'n' rollers ever expressing any political views.
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Everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.
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Billboard called my solo album, 'Standing In The Spotlight,' a great party album and even said that my raps put the Beastie Boys to shame.
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When a band like Blondie re-forms, you wish them the best.
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When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.
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I'd just sit with Dee Dee on the corner off of Queens Boulevard and drink and insult people and stuff. That's when I got kicked out of my house. My mother told me it was for my own good.